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- American antitrust law formally began in 1890 with the U.S. Congress 's passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act, although a few U.S. states had passed local antitrust laws during the preceding year.
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Oct 1, 2024 · In 2017, while still a student at Yale Law School, Lina Khan — now chair of the Federal Trade Commission — wrote a groundbreaking article, “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox,” that shook up antitrust thinking.
In the United States, antitrust law is a collection of mostly federal laws that regulate the conduct and organization of businesses in order to promote competition and prevent unjustified monopolies. The three main U.S. antitrust statutes are the Sherman Act of 1890, the Clayton Act of 1914, and the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914.
Mar 24, 2021 · There are three principal federal antitrust statutes: the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914, and the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914. In addition to these federal statutes, most states have antitrust laws that are enforced by state attorneys general or private plaintiffs.
The key pieces of antitrust legislation in the United States—the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 and the Clayton Act of 1914—contain broad language that has afforded the courts wide latitude in interpreting and enforcing the law.
- Laura Phillips Sawyer
- 2019
Harvard Law School scholars are at the forefront of studying and teaching about antitrust law and the regulation of business in the United States and across the globe. Issues include mergers, price fixing and other horizontal agreements in restraint of trade, monopolization and abuses of dominance, and other subjects of competition policy.
Apr 23, 2023 · Explain how US antitrust laws are enforced and what kinds of criminal and civil penalties may apply. In this chapter, we take up the origins of the federal antitrust laws and the basic rules governing restraints of trade. Sherman Act, Section 1; Clayton Act, Section 3.
We first examine the ‘classic’ US antitrust law system as it existed into the 1970s. It continues to form the basis for the system. We then analyze the changes that have occurred there since then and that are so critical to understanding the current and future roles of US antitrust law in the international arena.
